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Denies the statement.

New YORK, June 29.-Dr. McG1ynn
protested to say last Friday, on the
highest authority that the Roman Cath
Ole church government was DESTROYS of
having a minister from the pope ac-
credited to and received at Washing
ton, aud that such a minister would be
an archbishop, and one of the Italian
ring'' as he put it, whose presence
would be fruitful source of corruption
and enslavement for the Catholic
church in this country. A Tribune cor
respondent obtained an audience with
Cardinal Gibbons yesterday, and though
greatly averse to saying anything for
publication, he at last authorized this
statement to he made on his athority
the highest in the Catholic church in
the United States: First, the holy see
has, up to this moment, expressed no
intention of sending minciO to this
country, and the holy see does not even
entertain such intention.
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NATIONAL NEWS.

RUGKLE RESTORED TO THE ARMY.
WASHINGTON, June 2S.-An order
was issued from the War Department
to-day by the direction of the President
restoring to the army Major Benjamin
L. Runkle, retired, who was dropped
on the judgment of the Court of
Claims. This judgment was reversed
by the United States Supreme Court
May q, 1897. He will be borne upon
the Esls of the army as never having
been legally separated from the army.
ADVERSE TO KANSAS.
The Secretary of the Interior to-day
decided adversely the claim of the State
of Kansas under the act of January %,
1861, admitting her into the Union, to
S4S7 SOL, being 5 per cent of the net
proceeds of the sales of certain lands
made between July 1, 1884, and June 3,
1885, heretofore reserved for the Cher
okee, Kansas, Miami and Usage tribes
of Indians. the third section of the COM
pact admitting Kansas into the Union
providing that per centum of the net
proceeds of sales of public lands lying
within the state which shall be sold by
Congress after the admission of the
state into the Union, after deducting
all expenses incident to the same, shall
be paid to the state for the purpose of
making public roads, ETC., as the LegiS-
lature may direct. At that time there
was a large quantity of land held by
the tribes named above by their
title of occupancy. The lands were
subsequently ceded tothe United States
for the purpose of being sold, and the
proceeds deposited in the Treasury for
the benefit of these Indians. The
question at Issue was whether the lands
were 'spublic" lands in the sense in
which the word was used in the act
quoted above. Upon this question the
Secretary decides in the mega
tive, and holds that no such
sale as contemplated by the act
has taken place, the United States
never having received in its own right
the proceeds of the sale of these lands.
1t is therefore powerless TO appropriate
any portion thereof to satisfy the claim
of the state. The Secretary in this
decision overTuled the former action of
the Interior Department, whereby
similar accounts aggregating to some
thing over $500, 900 have been certified
to and paid to the state treasury
every year since 1861. 1t is stated that
claims similar i'll character have been
recognized and paid to several of the
states since 1919. 1t is intimated that
| the State of Kansas Will probably APP
ply to the United States Supreme Court
| for a mandamuS to compel the Com
missioner of the General Land Office to
| certify the claim to the First Comp
troller of the Treasury for payment,
which will raise the question of the
rights of the states in the premises.
This decision will affect all the states
admitted into the Union since 1857,
having Indian lands.
APPOINTED RECEIVER.
WASHINGTON, June %. - Acting
| Comptroller Abrahams to-day an
nounced that David Armstrong, OF
Jackson, Ohio, had been appointed re-
ceIver of the Fidelity National Bank
of Cincinnati, the appointment to take
| effect from the 9th inst.
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THE PENINSULA.
From Fortress Monroe to Fair
Oaks battle-ground.
GEN. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN.
The People Hailed Him as the Young
Napoleon"

a State OF Chronic Nervousness AbOut the
Safety OF Washington Prevented NC
Clsllan from Being Supported as He
wIShed-Thc Second Siege Of York.
town-wOrking Slowly and Painfully
Up the Peninsula Toward Richmond-
In the swamps-The CbiekAhomIny.
During the winter of1sas London Punch re-
marked that the American civil war was the
civilest 1t ever heard Of
In the summer Of 1851 tho north had been
crying for q leader. Popular demand was
satisfied by the appointments OF Maj. Gen.
George Brinton Mcclellan to be commander
In chief, first Of tho army Of the Potomac,
then Of the armies Of the whole United States.
The first promotion came July "a, the second
Nov. i. 1861
IL was not tin the next spring, 1862. how
ever, that any lighting was done by the army
Of the Potomac. The quarter centennial time
OF that fighting has come. Il finds most OF
the leaders on both sides gone from the scene
OF all earthly strife.
Mcclellan was not only O West Pointer but
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never was any more chance to get behind the
Confederate army and take Richmond The
opportunity was lost.
There was nothing for it now but to move
down the Chesapeake and then work up to-
ward Richmond In the face of the Confeder-
ate army Two routes were proposed, but
that adopted was McClellan's own, going to
Richmond by q march up the Peninsula, be-
tween the York and the James rivers. The
line OF march Is shown on our map by
dotted line
March II the army Of the Potomac began
their move to Fortress Monroe. They went
down the Potomac and Chesapeake bay In
transports Twenty thousand men, largely
fresh recruits, had been left at Washington.
All the subsequent differences and unpleasant
feeling between Gen. Mcclellan and the
authorities at Washington may be summed
up in a very few words: The president, secre-
tary of war and congress were unwilling to
increase Gen. McClellan's army by the re-
endorsements he constantly demanded be-
cause they feared it would leave Washington
| dangerously exposed
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Dynaniters ExiIetl.

ST. PETERSBURG, June 29.-An Off
cial messenger announces that twenty
one persons were tried at st. Peters
burg between the 9TH and 18th of the
present month on the charge of being
active members of secret society
called The VIII of the People," of
completely in several murders. includ-
ing that of Chief of Police Col. Suder-
kin, and of participation in a number
of r0bberies, of having assisted in sew
eral dynamite outrages and of having
taken part in starting of unlawful Sc
cret printing offices. Three of the pris-
Oners were acquitted, but the rest were
all sentenced to death. The death SEN
fences were, however, committed in two
cases to exile in Siberia, and in those
of the others to imprisonment at hard
labor
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SLAYER SPOTTED.
Bakers Murderer Traced to Kansas
City.
Hostile Apaches Plead for Mercy IN
Surrenderfng.
a. A. TaImage Of the Wabash Dies
in HIS Car.
A Kentucky Village Destroyed by a
Lamp Explosion.

KANSAS CITY, June 27.-On May
%, the body of z. Z. Baxter, peddler,
was found in the Cottonwood river five
miles from Emporia, Kansas. He had
been murdered with an axe He had
started from here in a covered wagon
and the murder was committed for
robbery. His partner, John, alias
''Dill'' Smith, was suspected and on
Sunday Journal reporter found him
in the western part of the city. To
day officers went to his room and found
it deserted. They found a number of
articles belonging to the murdered
man. Efforts to capture Smith have
been begun.
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Co1ton MILO Shut Down.

WooNsoCKET, r. l., June 2S.-Three
large cotton mills at Manyille have
shut down indefinitely on account of
the weavers strike and the mill officials
have notified all former employees to
quit the companies tenements. When
business is resumed new help Will be
engaged irrespective of former service.
No proposition of settlement will be
entertained. The operatives who
number 900 are mostly French-Cana-
dams and are fast leaving the village.
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STOCK AND pHoDUCE.
At Chicago

CIIIckfo. H.. june 20, 1897.
Haos-Receipts. II. go head: market opened
active and firm az Yesterdays prices, became
easier and declined sc on common grades;
Hight, sG.9S15-20; rough packing, 4.0ae5.D6:
mixed and heavy packing and shipping, 500
6f5Ss0.
aud lower. beeves, 81 40ss44 20; cows, $1,000
aZo; stOc<crs and feeders. sI.S06S3.l5-
SHELF Receipts 300 head: market slow
end &c lower: common tn choice, SS.0efsf;s5.
WfsEAT-3Iarke1 firm; No. red, cash G95fc;
July, zoe: August, 721sc.
CoxS-8farket about steady: No 2, cash,
35s<e: July, 80 Bloc; August, SIC.
oArs-Market firm; cash and july BE, Au
gust. u 7-Inc.
PoRK-Aarl<et steady: cash. ss2O0.
IsAHID--5faFh1et easy. cash 50 .SfB657 Y. July,
SG.sESE58.3 < August, $3.50
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Snnerina for Wafer

DUBLIN, June 29.-The town of Bau-
try is suffering from drouth, and the
inhabitants have great difficulty in
her majesty's ship Shannon, which is
stationed in Bautry bay, offered to fur
nish forty tons of condensed water to
relieve the towns wants, but the board
of poor law guardians met and resolved
to decline to accept any favor from the
ShannOn's captain, in consequence of
the insult he had offered her inhabi-
tants in Selling Mr.. MUTphy's yacht
for flying the green flag on jubilee day.
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ATerror to Politicians.

BALTIMORE. Md, June 27.-In the
criminal court to-day Judge Duffey
sentenced Charles w. Owens, Isaiah
Waters, John Brandon, John b. San
ner and William j. Bryne, judges and
clerks of election in the First ward, to
two years each in Jail. James II. Ham
lin, judge of election in the Eighteenth
ward, was sentenced to two years in
jail and to pay fine of 81 900. Henry
HeintzerIing forfeited his bail and did
not appear for sentence. All of these
men were convicted of fraud in the last
municipal election. The sentence has
created CONSERVATION among ward pol
iticians. There are several more to be
tried.
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Mininternreted the Regulators.

AUGUSTA, Me-, June Ex-Governor
Bodwell sent communication to the
state attorney general and to every
county attorney in the state, calling
their attention to the fact that con-
spiracy exists to evade the prohibitory
liquor law by an unjustifiable inter
probation of the United States revenue
regulations regarding the sale of liquor
in imported packages, and calling upon
them to enforce the law to the fullest
extent.
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ALnunn ExnIosion.

LOUISVILLE, KY, June ga spec
ial from Elizabethtown, Kentucky,
says: A lamp exploded in the drug
O'Clock last night, and started a confia-
grafton that has swept away nearly
One-fourth of the business portion of
the town. Louisville was autographed
to for aid, and at ] O'Clock responded.
AT 1:15 a. IN. the fire was under con-
troll. The loss will amount to SIS, GOO,
with insurance for half that sum.
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New Constitution 90 Sc adopted.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June 28.-Re-
turns from several thousand local As
semblies of the Knights of Labor to-
day show that the new Constitution
and the National Trade Assembly
clause both have been adopted by a
three fourths vote, and it is probable
that the General Executive Board will
promulgate new Constitution, which
contains many important changes,
about July 1st.
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crumbling bones of thousands of as brave men
as ever shouldered a musket.
A private letter written at the time de-
clares that Casey's FederaD division alone
lost s, 900 men from sickness during April and
May.
There was serious difference of opinion
about the line of march which should be
taken. There was a sort OF triangle of
authorities to DO consulted in forming the
plan OF campaign. One was President Lin
coin and his cabinet, another was Gen. Nc
Clellan, a third was the committee OF con-
greSs on the conduct Of the war, Senator Ben
Wade, OF Ohio, chairman. In january, 1862,
Edwin h. Stanton became secretary of war,
and thereafter was a most active element in
all military affairs.
President Lincoln had one plan of attack,
Mcclellan another. The presidents plan was
to move on the Confederates direct at Centre
vile and attack them in their stronghold.
McClellan's was to go down the Chesapeake
and then work up to Richmond, Va, and
capture the capital of the Confederacy before
the army at Centreville could prevent it. 1t
has not been decided to this day which plan
was the best. Either one might have been
successful IL carried out quickly. AS it was,
there were delay and hanging back and argu-
ment, while weeks and months were lost.
McClellan's plan was finally adopted. But the
fact remains that from that day on Mcclellan
regarded the authorities at Washington as his
natural enemies. In his letters during the
Peninsula campaign occur such expressions
as these:
"Those hounds at Washington ere after me
again"
In these words he refers TO President Lin
coin and his cabinet and the congressional
committee, including In the lump certain
military commanders. Especially he con-
ceIved a deadly anYnitv 70 Sacrataf-v Stanton
March 8, 1869, the president issued his gen.
eral war order No 5, directing the army OF
the Potomac to move down the Chesapeake.
The permission was given with tho express
condition that Washington should never be
80 stripped Of troops e. 20 be endangered
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bridge was already
built saved the day,
what there was left
of it Sumner
crossed in haste
with Sedgwick's
and Richardson's
divisions and took
command Line of
battle was formed
by Gen. Sedgwick
anew in the woods
near Fair Oaks,
and the battle ragged
even hotter than
before. Confederate
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At st. Louis

ST LOUIS, No, June % 1881
CATTJE-Receipts, co head: market easier;
choice heavy and native steers. eI5Sb4.50:
HOGS Receipts. $500 head: market active
and stronzs choice heavy and butchers, $40
@s5s9: packing and Workers, s49oa5.o5; pigs,
StfEEP-Receipts, 1.oO0 head; market steady.
WIikAT-Aarket very duIl- No. rcd cash,
'5zke ite; June. tie: July. I5s5e; AUGUST, 5tc-
I0RE-Market lower; No mixed, cash,
53l<653fes july 3J5xc. August, 34sze-
OAzs--y cry dtslis cash, 2s5zci june, 2Scs ALI
gust, 241se.
Poak- Market dull at $500.
IlARD-S5-t2H
WH1sKT-Steady at sf05.
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river, which flows
to the southeast,
then sud denly
takes a sharp turn
to the south and
enpties into the
James. That Is the
Chic all ominy,
where much fight
ing was done, but
where fevers and
malaria carried Off
more men than all
the fighting In Vir-
ginia- Within its
poison breeding
s w a mps lie the
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More Ev1efIons I'm I'eansylvania.

PTTsBURo, June 2S.-Sheriff Gray
and nineteen deputies left for Latro-
MIA, Pennsylvania. this morning to eyict
twenty-four families of striking en-
pIoyes of the Pennsylvania Salt Man
ufactHring Company. No trouble is
anticipated, as the leaders of the strike
have cautioned the strikers TO offer no
resistance.
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Drowuea Himself.

WINFIELD, Kas., June 27-JaInes
Leak of Lakin, Kansas. COM
mftted suicide here this morning by
drowning himself In the Walnut river.
He left note saying he had dreamed
twice that a lawsuit in which he was
interested would go against him and SO
concluded to end bis career.
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cabinet did their best to satisfy him By the
last OF October Mcclellan had & well equipped
army OF 4.2s5 men, his effective force
ready for fighting. There was an aggregate
OF l6S,31S The people expected the Young
Napoleon to fight. He talked about striking
an effective blow and making n short,
sharp, decisive campaign, which should finish
the war. Opposed to him at Centreville and
Manassas was q Confederate force Of $1,000
effective men
President Lincoln was exceedingly anxious
that the fayorite general should strike the
grand blow he had promised. ''If something
Is not done soon,n said Lincoln, '.the bottom
win fall out OF everything"
Mcclellan announced that the 'crushing
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CoNsTAETTNoPLE, june 29.-The
threats of France in connection with
the Anglo Turkish convention have had
the effect of exasperating the porte. 1t
is believed that the sultan will
finally sign the convention. The porte
has declined to grant a concession for
the construction of Asiatic railways to
a syndicate cOTnposed of Frenchmen.
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naval vessels in his
campaign toward
Richmond Til 2
first plan was q
combined land and
naval attack upon
Yorktown up the
York river from
Fortress Monroe.
But the navy could
not cooperate" as
the general under
stood it should, and
Gen Webb, In his
Peninsula Cam
paign," puts that
down as McCylal-
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LETTRR LIST.

List of letters uncailed for and remaining in
the postoffiee at Emporia, Kansas. for the
week ending June 20, 1897. Please give the date
of advertisement when called for:
Baker, Frank L Groves, Chas. S
Brown, NJ h Hartford. Douglas
Cabbage. Miss Ecttie Howard, r
CoOmIJg, 4 l. Kane. James
Davidson. Mrs Lena J HcAliister, Donald
Davis, Mrs NJ Moore, Young
boss James l. Scott, Miss Emma
FibIer w nliam Taylor. Hester
Ellis, d L Wachfel, Louis
Garrett Charley Wade, Burton.
81 BIRDSAfIl Il. NJ.
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twenty miles from
Washington oppos-
ed to an army three
times as large for
months.
March 5 Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston
detected indica-
tions of unusual
activity in a part
of the Federal
camp" Witty
and silently there
upon he moved to
1.-THE south bank OF
the Rappahannock,
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break, but his chief
forbade it. Smith
felt sure the at
tempt would have
been successful, for
his men were in
fighting mood. He
declared the few
Vermont boys per-
formed more indi-
vidual acts of he
roism than any 9th
er troops he had
heard of.
There was con-
ffnpoI hFnE fn@
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4
Confederate army
concentrated after
Bull Run. Beau
regard commanded
it up to the end Of
January, 1862.
Then he was sent
west, and Joseph z
Johnston became
general In chief OF
tn Confederate
army Of the east
Mcclellan called
for more and more
recruits for his
army. President
TfncOln and the
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had seen actual SER
vice in the Mexican
war. He was born
In Philadelphia In
1925. He was grad
uated from West
Point before he was
20 years old. The
most promising
graduates OF West
Point are inmedi-
ately assigned to
the engineer corps.
.It IL the crack
corps Of the regu-
lar army. Young
McC1allan WINS at
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Gen. Mcclellan rode from Yorktown to
Williamsburg, fourteen miles, upon his favor
tie war horse, Dan Webster. The generals
aides called him "Devil Dan," and he could
trct steady gait all day. Mcclellan never
parted with the faithful beast, but kept him
till Dan died. in 1870
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SHARPE FOUND GUILTY.
Anaches Surrender.

CHICAGO. ILL.,, June ga special
from San Carlos, Arizona, says: The
renegade Apaches have given them
selves up, after two weeks of steady
chasing. The hostiles began to scatter
and made for the reservation, narrow
ly escaping death or capture four diff
ferent times. Seeing they could not
escape, they sent one of their number
in to plead for terms of surrender
Gen. Miles, being at San Carlos in per-
son, notified them that he would ac-
cept their unconditional surrender
nothing less. Finding it next to i'm
possible to escape they surrendered
with plea for mercy. During the raid
the troops followed the hostiles forty
five miles over the toughest mountains
in southern Arizona, through intense
heat, with no water. 1t was the sharp
est, quickest and most emphatic cam
paign ever made against these Indians.
In crossing the SAM Carlos valley the
hostiles travelled nearly fifteen miles on
tiptoe to hide the trail, but an Indian
boy, Eaton, graduate of Hampton
school, held the trail. Only two citi-
zens were killed and but little stock
was stolen.
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Turn now to your map, run your finger
down the Chesapeake bay, and stop at that
portion Of Virginia between the James and
the York rivers, Run your eye up that, and
you will see that it is a long tongue of land
formed by those two rivers, and lying north
west and southeast. That is Sthe Peninsula, !"
and there Is where McClellan's battles were
fought. Well up toward the upper end lies
Richmond, the objective point of the army Of
the Potomac. Slightly to the north Of Rich
mond you will notice a long, crooked little
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Terrible TaIes ofan Opera Troupe.

ST. LOUIS, June ga special from
Wichita, Kansas, says: A. b. Bird, with
his wife and daughter Lolita, has ar
rived in the city and relates a terrible
story of wrong and suffering endured
while confined N prison at Del Norte, in
old Mexico, last winter. Bird was the
manager of an opera company touring
in that country, and while playing in
Del Norte the entire company were ar
rested upon flimsy pretext and
thrown into the same prison in Which
Editor Cutting was confined. They
were denied hearing or trial and
were not even allowed to see or con-
verse with Americans, though several
tried to see them. While they were
confined four members of the company
died of small poX, while all suffered
privations and sickness Lately the
company was released, having lost all
their wardrobe and musical instru-
ments. Steps have been taken to Sc
cure redress by placing the matter in
the hands of the proper authorities.
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FAN OAKS STATION.

The Confederate army retreatei to Williams
burg, eleven miles further up the Peninsula
Here the third line OF the Confederate forti6-
cations crossed the Peninsula Johnston's re-
treat was accomplished the night of May 8.
1t was before Yorktown that captive war bal
looms began TO be used.